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TL;DR

• Classifies all 6,573 oracle-invocation census rows at this head with source-bound evidence: 2,068 qualified through the shared owner, 4,465 excluded, 23 confirmed bypasses in 6 files and 17 explained unavailable-input unknowns.
• Repairs the other bypasses so each oracle call runs the pair test_oracle.require returned, including bypasses in code merged from main during this work. The 23 that remain need frozen files changed: 19 reach the bare ffprobe in scripts/oracle_kd.py, whose bytes the Opus round-4 registration fixes, and 4 relay into the frozen compat reporter.
• Leaves the classifier out of required checks, because it still fails on the 23 bypass and 17 unknown rows.

Background

#438 added the evidence mechanism and repaired the 43 known bypass locations, leaving 5,006 census rows unknown. This change finishes that follow-up: classify every row, repair every bypass the classification finds, and enable the required gate only if both the unknown and bypass counts reach zero.

Refs #25.

What changes

What changes for users of the library or CLI? Nothing. Test, fixture, measurement and workflow code now refuses an unqualified oracle instead of running it.

What does this cover, and what nearby areas did it deliberately leave alone?

• Covered: the catalogue in docs/design/oracle-invocation-dispositions.json for every discovered and closure row; oracle-pair repairs across Rust integration tests, Python checks and measurement drivers, shell fixtures, the macOS VideoToolbox tools, the composed Opus-to-AAC check, the thumbnail probe helpers, the Matroska remux corpus driver and the codec-coverage and GitHub-shape workflows; regressions for each repair; plan sections in docs/design/oracle-qualification-gate.md.
• Not covered: pins, installers, tolerances, judgments and historical evidence. No recorded measurement is rerun or rejudged. The required classifier step is not added.
• Not covered: _first_frame_size in scripts/oracle_kd.py launches a bare ffprobe from PATH. The ISO overlay chain in that file and its callers in tools/oracle/kd_audit.py, tools/stage3-report/corpus.py and tools/stage3-report/run.py are recorded as 19 confirmed-bypass rows. The repair is withdrawn because the Opus round-4 speed registration binds its capacity preflight to this file's exact digest. CoreAV Codecs owns the follow-up, which lands the repair with the next Opus registration.
• Not covered: tools/compat-corpus/current_ci.py and the strict-rejection branch of tools/compat-corpus/corpus_kd.py put the qualified directory first on the frozen reporter's PATH and check that lookup, but the frozen tools/compat-corpus/run.py still launches ffprobe by name. A checked lookup is not the returned program, so these 4 rows are confirmed bypasses. Passing the returned path needs a change to that protected file.
• Not covered: the protected tools/compat-corpus/copy_check.py does not hand its selected pair to scripts/mkv_remux_check.py, so the checker qualifies whatever its own environment selects. The protected tools/oracle/writer_corpus.py does not pass --bin to the HLS checker child, and no workflow runs it; a manual run must set COREAV_FFMPEG and COREAV_FFPROBE to the --bin pair. Both checkers fail closed on an unqualified pair.
• Not covered: the frozen measurement script docs/measurements/av1-thumbnail-fixed-cost/arms.py still calls thumbnail_oracle.at_time(path, ffprobe). That helper now takes the whole qualified pair, so running the script against the current helper stops with a TypeError before any oracle call. Its archived job selects staged helpers through --scripts, and replaying the recorded tables with summarize.py does not use the helper.

What must a person do after merging? Repair the 19 _first_frame_size rows with the next Opus registration and the 4 reporter rows with a change to the frozen reporter, provide inputs for the 17 unavailable-input rows (or accept them), then wire the classifier as a required check once it passes.

Decisions

• Keep the required classifier unwired. It fails on the 23 confirmed-bypass rows above, and the 17 unknown rows (scripts/encoders/macos/timing.py 6, scripts/h264_g1.py 5, scripts/h264_pgo_round.py 4, scripts/encoders/macos/cache_residency.py 2) need inputs this branch does not have, so each records its reason instead of a guessed verdict.
• Maintainer approvals, 2026-11-06: the repairs to the registered scripts/mkv_remux_check.py, scripts/hls_check.py and scripts/oracle_kd_mkv.py, each with one forward-only hash; the forward-only tools hashes in scripts/encoders/macos/videotoolbox-sources.json for the VideoToolbox repair; and adding scripts/test_oracle.py and scripts/oracle_pin_macos.py to JUDGING, with the new compat_sources.py hash in judging.json. The roster regression is unchanged.
• Keep scripts/oracle_kd.py at main's bytes, 2026-11-07: decided by the coordinating agent, CoreAV Lead, not the maintainer. The maintainer had approved a _first_frame_size repair with one forward-only judging.json hash, but the Opus round-4 registration binds its capacity preflight to that file's digest, and bench/audio-decode/capacity.py check-registrations failed on the changed file. Rewriting that binding would misstate what the preflight ran. The repair and its regression are withdrawn, judging.json keeps main's hash for the file, and the rows are disclosed as confirmed bypasses. This only narrows scope.
• Scope extension to the verify_input_seek_refusal reference in crates/coreav-cli/tests/ffmpeg.rs, 2026-11-06: decided by the coordinating agent, not the maintainer.
• G1 metric_ffmpeg ruling, 2026-11-06, made by the author and not reviewed: the digest-pinned metric FFmpeg is a measurement tool, not the oracle pair. scripts/h264_g1.py now requires every frozen metric command to start with a pinned-tool placeholder, so no command can start from a bare name on PATH.
• Codec-coverage guard narrowing, decided by the coordinating agent: the legacy registered candidate has no scripts/test_oracle.py, so each job that passes --ffmpeg or --ffprobe adds one sparse checkout of the five owner files from the run's own commit and passes the paths test_oracle.py --resolve returns. scripts/tests/test_registered_candidate.py narrows its checkout guard to allow exactly that checkout and still rejects a second tooling checkout, extra paths, other refs and git fetch. Results do not move, because candidate 4062842fc42babef9e6661a37bbb18f7e375a80c and this head have identical scripts/oracle-ffmpeg.env (95601248eba142d1cbf8d81aaf46d5ebc61c1962fe1edafdc1ee2c1b7bd33f24), scripts/install-oracle-ffmpeg.sh (819e66bbdd3ee43327e5183be216997211299434db239eb4a41a22c41910bfd5) and scripts/oracle_pin.py (b221378b054a6e6bae92051ae4e4e4fa1add451213f28e888825fa6e43f2f909).
• Maintainer decision, 2026-11-06 (Slack 1793977056.137349, answer "A"): repair the composed Opus-to-AAC check's oracle verification, which ran oracle_pin.py --verify-bin on a directory rebuilt from the resolved ffmpeg path. verify_oracle now keeps the pair test_oracle.require returns. scripts/composed_audio.py is part of that check's judging-source digest, so verdicts after this change carry a new judging_sha256. The change is forward-only: past verdicts stay as recorded, and the registration JSON and its registration_sha256 are unchanged. docs/design/composed-opus-aac-v2.md records the amendment.
• Maintainer approval, 2026-11-06: merge this pull request once every gate holds at its final head.
• Thumbnail probe helpers take the whole qualified pair, decided by the author after independent review: default_video, at_time and video_codec previously rebuilt ffmpeg as a sibling of the given ffprobe, which broke a valid owner-returned pair whose programs resolve to other names.
• The Matroska remux corpus driver hands its checker child COREAV_FFMPEG and COREAV_FFPROBE pointing at the retained pair, instead of only a PATH entry that an inherited COREAV_FFMPEG could override. test_remux_checker_runs_only_the_retained_pair now records each call's arguments and expects one qualification per process, because the approved checker repair qualifies again in the child.
• tools/oracle/writer_kd_audit_cli.py and tools/stage3-report/run.py select their pair with test_oracle.require() and no arguments, the same selection as the checkers they run, so a set COREAV_FFMPEG no longer splits or fails the selection; a qualification failure exits with a refusal. Its fixture captures and corpus runs also receive both selected paths as FFMPEG and FFPROBE, so an inherited pair cannot make the capture wrapper qualify a different pair. scripts/h264_counts.py qualifies an explicit ffprobe together with the ffmpeg in its own directory, so a default ffmpeg elsewhere no longer rejects a valid probe. scripts/vp9_filter_coverage.py lists scripts/test_oracle.py and scripts/oracle_pin_macos.py in the sources a capture records, and vp9-filter.yml triggers on them, because the capture now qualifies its pair through that owner.
• test_an_unpinned_supplied_ffmpeg_beside_pinned_tools_stops_before_commands isolates the owner's process-wide cache, so its refused selection no longer fails the pinned-oracle class that runs after it.
• Repair bypasses found in code merged from main while this branch was open, each planned in the design note first and covered by regressions: the HEVC decode, smoke and packet tools (feat(hevc): reconstruct scalar inter pictures #429, ci(hevc): split routine and full validation #453), the AAC shape checks and GitHub-shape measurement (feat(compat): count AAC tolerance separately #450), the input-seek audio probe (feat(ffmpeg): copy bounded input-seek audio #440), the AV1 process reference (test(av1): measure the encoder process boundary #457) and the HEVC reference driver (perf(hevc): add scalar decode reference driver #447). The AV1 comparator stays the timed FFmpeg arm, and its outputs are judged by the qualified pair.
• Merge main eleven times instead of rebasing (73e073d1d, 51a6e5891, 7c1f23473, 60c2d5775, 9df0b933d, 1ed056843, b95d327e0, 5ef3072e1, 28c36a0e6, eeeb4bbc4, 1d794dd99). The 5ef3072e1 merge keeps the qualified pair in scripts/hevc_decode.py together with perf(hevc): narrow and bound the inverse transform #464's per-arm timeouts (3,600 s whole-file, 1,800 s prefix), which now also bound the packet oracle child. Only the first had conflicts: .github/workflows/ci.yml keeps the resolved --ffmpeg/--ffprobe pair for copy_check.py together with main's new test_copy_check.py step, and docs/agents/compat-corpus.md keeps both sides' rows.
• Rebind five historical-snapshot entries changed or added by feat(ffmpeg): copy bounded input-seek audio #440 and docs(transcode): Reject pipe batching #443, so the snapshot grows to 4,889 files. It records existing main bytes and rejudges nothing.
• scripts/encoders/macos/test_hevc_smoke.py imports its module from its own directory, because main's new scripts/hevc_smoke.py shadowed it.
• Classification rulings made by the author and independent auditors, not reviewed by the maintainer: 169 docstring rows are excluded, the encode_breadth.py harness rows are excluded because they run only the CoreAV test executable, and verdicts are carried across line shifts or folded only when a check shows every cited line is byte-identical. Otherwise the row is audited again at the new head.
• feat(hevc): add an opt-in decode backend #456 landed first with hevc_conformance.qualified_oracle, which returns the pair test_oracle.require qualifies. The merge keeps its corpus and offline paths as they are on main, leaves scripts/hevc_decode.py identical to main, and routes this branch's hevc_conformance.run and hevc_intra.run through the same helper.
• Retry the composed-audio fixture generation in CI, decided by the author: a pull request that changes scripts/composed_audio.py misses main's fixture cache, so each run downloads the registered comparator archive. That download failed within 0.4 s in 4 of 9 runs of this branch, and composed_audio.bounded does not show curl's error. The shared fixture action now runs the unchanged generation up to three times, with 60 s and 120 s waits; after each failure it removes the partial output and logs curl's exit code and HTTP status for that archive. The opus job in audio-conformance.yml failed on the same host with curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer, which --retry 3 does not retry, so its two archive downloads also pass --retry-all-errors --retry-delay 5. The archive digest checks are unchanged, and no registered byte changes.

Evidence

Verification run:

• scripts/oracle_invocation_classify.py --json: valid evidence, no problems, exact reconciliation of 6,573 rows (6,283 discovered and 290 closure rows). Counts: 2,068 qualified rows at 1,626 locations, 4,465 excluded rows at 4,193 locations, 23 confirmed-bypass rows at 23 locations in 6 files and 17 unknown rows. It exits 1 because of the bypass and unknown rows.
• Row-lineage receipt from base 1d8c26380: every one of the base's 6,230 rows and the head's 6,573 rows is accounted for, with no problems. The base and current discovery code yield the same 6,283 row identities at this head.
• python -m unittest discover -s scripts/tests: 6 failing tests, all of which also fail on main (where 46 fail). The failures in tools/compat-corpus/tests and tools/oracle/tests are the same tests that fail on main on this macOS host. The composed audio, thumbnail and remux regressions fail on the unrepaired code. test_test_oracle passes in a Linux container. macOS encoder tests, HEVC tests and test_reference_hevc.py pass. The new AV1 and HEVC-reference regressions fail on the unrepaired code.
• compat_sources.py check verifies 38 files against judging registration d2a5488f8cd910e09def7e290558dbb1cd6509f3153299d33baf3f3fcbda8fc7. bench/audio-decode/capacity.py check-registrations passes. workflow_check.py, issue_refs_check.py and pr_shape_check.py pass. actionlint reports nothing that main does not. Every commit is signed off.
• Protected files: of the protected list, only docs/measurements/compat-0.1.0/judging.json differs from main, through the approved roster entries, the new compat_sources.py hash and the approved forward-only hashes for scripts/hls_check.py, scripts/mkv_remux_check.py and scripts/oracle_kd_mkv.py. scripts/oracle_kd.py, the Opus round-4 binding and bench/audio-decode/ match main.
• Similarity guard on 3d8b5dbd390a91dd000226e79cfef4dea3c3a499 with the ops allowlist on main (60b740336): exit 0, 108 spans of 50+ tokens, 0 not allowlisted, 0 problems, 0 stale entries.
• Not run locally: Rust integration tests, Linux-only jobs and the workflow changes. CI runs those. No media, corpus, held-out, cloud or remote-infrastructure job was started.

Links: Plan and merged-main classification, #438.

• Every commit is signed off (git commit -s, DCO).
• I copied nothing from other implementations.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Reliability
  • Reference-tool checks now consistently use qualified FFmpeg and ffprobe executables across validation, benchmarks, and CI workflows.
  • Audio fixture generation retries up to three times, with delays between attempts, before reporting failure.
  • Archive downloads for audio conformance checks now retry on errors while retaining checksum validation.
• Validation
  • Added checks for frozen compatibility sources and expanded regression coverage for tool selection and qualification.
• Documentation
  • Updated compatibility workflow guidance and oracle qualification records.

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Reviewed head a92b1d43ca797acc94b73b70faade120788fac93 of #467, limited to the delta from 7dac6a6839357495c17172090ef3a77ff32b19a5. No new blocking findings.

Merge resolution and retained HEVC pair

Against main 1d794dd99cfaaa9b432666b20f2f035ecb27f195, scripts/hevc_decode.py is byte-identical. The conformance/intra source and test diffs retain main's new decode-boundary behavior; the remaining differences are the branch's retained-pair plumbing and corresponding qualification regressions. No main test or boundary check is dropped by those differences.

hevc_conformance.qualified_oracle returns test_oracle.require's object unchanged and translates qualification failure to the documented ValueError. run(args, oracle=None) uses that helper only when no retained object was supplied, hashes the object's fields separately as oracle_identity, and forwards its fields to probing, confirmation and anchored references. Its synthetic branch receives the same object. hevc_intra.run obtains the pair from that shared helper, passes the object unchanged to the census, and uses its fields for picture references, diagnostics and final identity checks. The updated decoder regression expects the shared helper's refusal message rather than weakening the refusal condition.

Stage-3 child forwarding

Both fixture capture children receive explicit FFMPEG and FFPROBE values from the selected pair. The common environment builder applies those overrides after copying the inherited environment. The reference adapter consumes both variables through the qualification resolver, so an inherited pair cannot silently replace the retained selection. step_fixtures forwards args.oracle at both call sites; the corpus child now receives both variables as well.

The new regression checks the inherited-environment override. I additionally exercised the complete reference/candidate loop with execution and report reading mocked: both capture invocations receive the exact retained fields, and only the candidate invocation receives the adapter option. The existing frozen ISO/reporter bypasses remain classified as bypasses; this forwarding repair does not claim to fix their independent bare-name launches.

Independent checks

• The classifier reports valid evidence, no problems and exact reconciliation of 6,573 input/mapped rows: 6,283 discovered plus 290 closure. Counts are 2,068 qualified rows at 1,626 locations, 4,465 excluded at 4,193, 23 confirmed bypasses at 23 locations in six files, and 17 unknowns, all unavailable-input. Exit 1 is expected; the required classifier remains unwired. Its output is saved in classifier.json and classifier.log beside this report.
• Catalogue comparison reproduces round 20's 199 changed site records (85 qualified, 114 excluded) and round 21's 69 (21 qualified, 42 excluded, six confirmed bypasses). Source spot-checks support the shared qualification chains and the native-only boundary exclusions. Round 21 retains the bypass disclosures rather than inheriting qualification from main.
• The five focused suites test_hevc_conformance, test_hevc_decode, test_hevc_intra, test_hevc_boundary and test_stage3_run_oracle run 134 tests successfully, with three platform skips. Oracle/media execution in these checks is mocked; the extra capture-loop check is mocked as well.
• scripts/oracle_kd.py, scripts/hevc_decode.py and the entire bench/audio-decode tree equal main. Capacity registration checking exits 0. The compatibility guard also exits 0: 38 files verified against registration d2a5488f8cd910e09def7e290558dbb1cd6509f3153299d33baf3f3fcbda8fc7.

The note now records eleven merges, the new census and the stage-3 cause row. Its stated lineage totals reconcile arithmetically to the base and head counts. I did not independently rerun the separate historical lineage/invariance procedures or the author's entire 310-test selection; those are not represented here as reviewer-run results. The independent classifier does rediscover the current 6,283 rows.

The checked worktree remains clean at the reviewed head. No checkout edits, commits, network, media, corpus or oracle-binary commands were performed. This report was not posted to the PR. CI, similarity and bot-thread closure remain separate merge gates. Infrastructure spend: none.

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Reviewed #467 at head d5f05941726518c0211323da7038de93becfa100, limited to the delta from ef79d1a5a0dea29d29a3a4ea17f905a5ff13fa66. The delta-7 terminal-cleanup finding is resolved. No new findings.

The action removes pre-existing output before the loop and removes each failed attempt's output immediately after the failed generator invocation, including attempt three. Success still exits before that cleanup and preserves its completed output. Cleanup failures remain fatal under Bash -e; the script cannot continue to publication after a failed removal.

I extracted the current action body and executed it under bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail, with generator, curl and sleep mocked. The generator wrote output before failing, and the diagnostic mock also checked that cleanup had already happened. All four scenarios passed:

Generator outcome	Attempts	Warnings	Sleep requests	Exit	Final output
Success on attempt 1	1	0	None	0	Preserved
Success on attempt 2	2	1	60 seconds	0	Preserved
Success on attempt 3	3	2	60, 120 seconds	0	Preserved
All attempts fail	3	3	60, 120 seconds	1	Absent

Pre-existing output never reached a generator invocation, and failed output never reached a diagnostic probe or subsequent attempt. Curl failures remained diagnostic rather than aborting the loop. The receipt is retry-mock-results.json beside this report. All five existing test_ci_fixtures tests also pass.

The registered generator, composed implementation, registration JSON and design note are unchanged by this delta. The archive digest gate and generator command therefore remain intact. The action proof now accurately describes both cleanup points and the preserved successful output; the remaining classification changes are the action's refreshed source/dependency digests.

The independent exact-head classifier reports evidence_valid: true, problems: [] and exact reconciliation of 6,573 rows (6,283 discovered plus 290 closure). Counts remain 2,068 qualified at 1,626 locations, 4,465 excluded at 4,193 locations, 23 confirmed bypasses at 23 locations in six files, and 17 unknowns, all unavailable-input. Exit 1 remains expected for the unresolved bypasses and unknowns. Its JSON and log are beside this report. The separately reported historical lineage/invariance runs were not repeated for this two-file fix.

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Reviewed #467 at head 3d8b5dbd390a91dd000226e79cfef4dea3c3a499, limited to the delta from d5f05941726518c0211323da7038de93becfa100. No new blocking findings.

Download and digest gates

An independent line comparison confirms that only workflow lines 533 and 542 changed and the line count is unchanged. Both changes add --retry-all-errors --retry-delay 5 to the existing --retry 3 download commands. The archive names, URLs, expected digests, sha256sum -c checks and extraction/build ordering remain unchanged. Both steps retain set -euo pipefail: exhausted download failure or digest mismatch stops before extraction. Retry success does not bypass verification.

I exercised the actual two workflow bodies with downloads, extraction and compilation mocked, and a local SHA-256 checker over synthetic bytes. For each step, correct bytes passed, corrupt bytes exited 1 without extraction, and curl status 35 exited 35 without extraction. No network, archive extraction or comparator build occurred. The six-case receipt is digest-mock-results.json beside this report. This verifies gate ordering; it does not reproduce the reported remote connection reset or exercise curl's internal retry implementation.

Carried and reselected evidence

I checked all 73 rows in the carry receipt against the current catalogue. Each retains its site, evidence and verdict; none cites either changed line or makes a claim about the downloads. The workflow's own carried sites also avoid those lines. The helper computes the changed-line set and rejects intersecting citations; I independently asserted that the actual set is exactly {533, 542}.

One correction to the brief: the 73 carried rows are 39 qualified and 34 excluded, not all qualified. Their unchanged mechanisms support those verdicts, and this does not change the aggregate census.

The AAC evidence reselections change 13 records in aac_agreement.py and 32 in he_aac_agreement.py, without changing verdicts. Source spot-checks support the self-contained proofs without relying on workflow citations:

• AAC main retains both fields returned by require before dispatching prepare/judge. Preparation and comparison execute those fields, and the delegated audio checker receives both explicitly. Its native coreav command remains distinct from the reference command.
• HE-AAC qualifies every reference-bearing mode before dispatch; its separate encode mode uses the native platform encoder. Preparation, probe/answer helpers, reference decoding and the delegated checker retain the selected fields. The reselected native-command exclusions correspond to native commands, not FFmpeg reference calls.
• The delegated checker's argument parsing preserves the supplied pair; its probe and decode commands use those fields. AAC, HE-AAC, the checker and the ISO facts reader are byte-identical to the prior reviewed head, so this workflow-only retry change cannot introduce a new call edge in those proofs.

Exact-head validation

The independent classifier reports evidence_valid: true, problems: [] and exact reconciliation of 6,573 input/mapped rows: 6,283 discovered plus 290 closure. Counts remain 2,068 qualified, 4,465 excluded, 23 confirmed bypasses and 17 unknowns, all unavailable-input. Exit 1 is expected for the disclosed bypasses and unknowns. Output is saved in classifier.json and classifier.log. The historical lineage/invariance procedures were not rerun for this two-file delta.

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